Apron for cigar-machines



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J. J. BECKER. APRON FOR CIGAR MACHINES.

No. 408,067. Patented July 30, I889.

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J. J. BECKER.

APRON FOR CIGAR MACHINES. N0. 408,067v Patented July 30. 1889.

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UNITED S ATES PATENT OFFICE.

" JOHN J. BECKER, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

APRON FOR CIGAR-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,067, dated July 30, 1889. Application filed June 24, 1887. Serial No. 242,423. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. BECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Laekawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Aprons for Oigar-Makin g Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is directed to certain improvements in belts or aprons for cigar-bunching machines, having for its object to produce by one operation of the machine a cigar-bunch of the required form, whereby a cigar may be made tapering toward one or both ends.

The invention relates to certain improvements in cigar-making machines; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts, as will fully appear from the following description and claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarbunching machine having my improved belt or apron applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view thereof taken at a different angle. Fig. 3 is a detached plan view of my improved apron or belt. Fig. at is a transverse section thereof. Fig. 5 is a detailed perspective view of the loop-formin g roller-carrying lever of the bunehing-machine. Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged perspective views of modifications of the belt or apron ribs, showing them as detachable or separable from the apron or belt. Figs. 8 and 9 are cross-sectional views of Figs. 6 and 7. Figs. 10 and 11 are views of loopforming rollers specially designed for the latter or modified form of my improved apron or belt ribs. Fig. 12 is a detailed side view of the table. Fig. 13 is an enlarged detailed perspeetive View of a portion of the machine-ta ble and of another modification of my improved belt or apron, disclosing the adjustable feature of the ribs; and Figs. 14c and 15 are similar views of opposite ends of the bunching-machine table and my improved apron or belt applied thereto.

In the embodiment of my invent-ion I employ a belt or apron A, properly disposed upon the table A and of flexible material, having, preferably, a rubber facing and a back or body of duck, and upon its upper surface or face ribs or elevations a a. The ribs a a may be one or more in number and extend along the longitudinal edges of the belt or apron. In

cross-section each rib or elevation at a tapers from a point near its outer elevated portion inward, vanishing toward but stopping at a point some distance away from the middle of the apron or belt A, as shown.

From this construction it will be seen that with the use of a single rib in the process of bunehing the cigar the latter will be produced with a single tapering end, or with two of said ribs the cigar will be produced with a taper at each end, as may be desired.

As shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the ribs a may be rendered detachable or separable from the belt or apron, having at their ends tubular terminals or sockets b b, which receive fastenings in the form of rods 0 0, applied to the tableas, for instance, as shown in Figs. 14 and 15to hold the ribs in position upon the apron or belt. Other suitable means, however, may be employed to effect that purpose without departing from the spirit of my invention. In the rib as disclosed in Figs. 6 and 8 is a longitudinal groove or channel b, providing between itself and the outer depressed or flanged portion b of the rib a 10in gitudinal elevation or rib b Corresponding to this surface of the ribs a are provided the loop forming or buckling duplicate rollers d" (1*, applied to the levers d d as shown, and spaced apart so as to permit one to rest or bear in the groove or channel Z) while the other rests or bears upon the flange b the rib b standing between said rollers. This arrangement is necessary to hold the ribs a 0.

in position upon the apron or belt while forming the loop or buckle therein. The ribs an d rollers are all adjustable upon the apron by means of set or adjusting screws (Z working in the upper ends of the levers d and engaging the shafts of the rollers d.

In Figs. 7 and 9 is a slight modification of the foregoing, only a single roller d being employed, while the rib a has an elevation b and a flange b but it has no groove or channel b. This form of rib, however, is. capable of lateral adj ustment upon the belt or apron A, being provided upon its under side with a longitudinal groove or channel b which receives, as shown in Fig. 13, a'bar or cleat 6, applied to the table and adjustable thereon with the ribs by means of a set or holding screw 6, fitted with a thumb-nut upon the under side of the table and passing up through a slot 6 in the table. The adjustability of the ribs provides for producing cigar-bunches of different lengths.

It will be observed that with the binder or Wrapper in place upon the belt or apron A, as also the filling, as the handle cZ of the table A is grasped and so manipulated as to carry the table forward-i. 6., toward the loop f in the belt or apronthe loop forming or buckling rollers will be carried with the looped portions of the apron or belt in between the brackets d and under the apron-supporting roller (2 thus effecting the wrapping of the binder around the filling, while the rib or ribs, as the case may be, will impart the required taper to the bunch. The bunching operation thus being completed, and the hooked projections m m at the distant or handled end of the table, which prevent the rollers from leaving the table, having been brought into such position as to pass down under the completed cigar-bunch, the latter liberated, and it rolls down over or upon the backs of said pro jections into the proximately cup-shaped or curved flanges or extensions f f, arranged at the same end of the table and just below the projections m m. Upon the return movement of the table with the belt or apron the loop will again be formed through the automatic action of the rollers carried by the springactuated levers d, and the ciganbunch will be carried back therewith and be deposited or discharged upon that end of the table-support for final disposition.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The apron orbelt for cigar-launching machines, having upon its upper surface one or more removable or separable tapering ribs traversing its length, substantially as set forth.

2. The belt or apron for cigar-bunching machines, having upon its upper surface one or more adjustable tapering ribs, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with a belt or apron for a cigar-bunching machine, having upon its upper surface one or more longitudinal tapering flexible ribs, of the loop-forn'ling rollers of the bun clung-machine, each rollerbearing upon a track or depression in the rib or ribs, substantially as and for the-purpose set forth.

4. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination, with one or more ribs having in its under side a groove or channel, of a eleat entering said groove or channel and adjustable along the table of the bunehing-machine by means of nutted screws passed through aslot -in the table and engaging the cleat or cleats,

and an apron, substantially as specifieth JOHN J. BECKER W i tn esses:

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